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What Obama didn’t say

By Hayley Peterson
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Embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad still has legitimacy in the eyes of President Obama, the commander-in-chief confirmed on Thursday.

Obama compared Assad’s violent crackdown on political protestors in Syria to Moammar Gadhafi’s murderous oppression in Libya, but the commander-in-chief refrained from calling for the Syrian leader to step aside.

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